Team Human
395 episodes - English - Latest episode: 16 days ago - ★★★★★ - 332 ratingsTeam Human is a weekly podcast and set of resources enabling human intervention in the economic, technological, and social programs that determine how we live, work, and interact. This is media as cultural resistance and a path to social change. Get bonus content on Patreon
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Episodes
Bryan Walsh "Avoiding Apocalypse" + Adrienne Haynes "Community Empowerment"
September 18, 2019 16:46 - 54 minutes - 79.1 MBPlaying for Team Human today, former TIME International Editor, Bryan Walsh & attorney and business woman Adrienne Haynes. Bryan Walsh shares his thoughts on why the end of humankind seems inevitable and the ways we might avoid imminent crisis. In his new book, End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World, Walsh explores how the threats of asteroids, super volcanoes, nuclear war, climate change, disease pandemics, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial intelligence...
Ep. 136 Live from MAHA with Stephen Bartolomei and Brigitte McQueen Shew "Optimizing for Connection"
September 04, 2019 12:01 - 1 hour - 77.7 MBPlaying for Team Human today, musician, media scholar, and founding Team Human producer Stephen Bartolomei AND community advocate and founder of the Union for Contemporary Art Brigitte McQueen Shew. Douglas opens the show with a monologue about the disorienting construction of the Democratic debates by television networks. He looks at how the television environment fights to assert its dominance in a digital age, how candidates are positioned against one another, and how the stage's aesthet...
Mary L. Gray "Invisible by Design" + Betaworks Studios Keynote
August 21, 2019 11:55 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBPlaying for Team Human today, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research and Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Mary L. Gray. Mary L. Gray joins Team Human to share her research into the invisible human workforce that powers the web. In her new co-authored book, Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass, Gray explores the assumptions made about the content moderators, proofreaders and AI-trainers that make the intern...
Live from VRTO with Keram Malicki-Sanchez & Amelia Winger-Bearskin
August 07, 2019 14:58 - 1 hour - 57 MBOn June 2nd, 2019 Team Human was invited by VRTO to host a live recording on virtual reality, story telling and time. Joining Douglas on stage, VRTO Founder, Keram Malicki-Sanchez followed by artist, technologist and organizer, Amelia Winger Bearskin. Rushkoff discusses the origins of virtual reality and shares stories of exploring the limits of the medium with Timothy Leary and Terrence McKenna. Together Rushkoff, Malicki-Sanchez, and Winger-Bearskin ask how virtual reality can be used in ...
Jennifer Dumpert "Liminal Dreaming"
July 24, 2019 12:22 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBPlaying for Team Human today, San Francisco-based writer and author of Liminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep, Jennifer Dumpert. Jennifer Dumpert joins Team Human to explore the unusual half-waking dream states of hypnagogia and hypnopompia. In her new book, Liminal Dreaming, Dumpert shares her exploration of these dream spaces to show how they can improve sleep, mitigate anxiety and depression and aid creativity. On this episode Douglas and Jennifer explore all for...
Ep. 132 David Wallace-Wells "The Power of Panic"
July 10, 2019 10:45 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBPlaying for Team Human today, American Journalist and author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, David Wallace-Wells. David Wallace-Wells joins Team Human to share why he believes that the climate crisis that is both inevitable and avoidable. In his new book, The Uninhabitable Earth, Wallace-Wells works to deconstruct the myth that humans are insulated from the worst effects of climate change. He does this by showing that the obsession with the science behind climate can often h...
Ep. 131 Cory Doctorow "The Oligarchy's Operating System"
June 26, 2019 05:52 - 1 hour - 85.2 MBPlaying for Team Human today, activist, journalist, and science fiction author of the new anthology Radicalized, Cory Doctorow. Cory has a unique way of building stories, metaphors, and scenarios that clarify the underlying dynamics of living in a technologized society. In Radicalized, Cory extrapolates the embedded laws and values defining the present moment to show, not some distant future, but the dystopia that very much exists today. Together, Douglas and Cory explore the question – Wha...
Ep. 130 Astra Taylor "Democracy is a Verb"
June 12, 2019 11:15 - 1 hour - 80.7 MBReturning to play for Team Human today, filmmaker, author, musician, and activist Astra Taylor. Astra joins Douglas for a conversation that wrestles with the paradoxes and contradictions inherent in democracy. It’s a discussion explored in her latest film, What is Democracy? and her new book, Democracy May Not Exist But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone. (Hudson Books, Indie Bound, Amazon) Do we really have a clear vision and political imagination of what democracy should look like? How can we ...
Ep. 129 Clive Thompson "The Lust for Scale"
May 01, 2019 10:44 - 1 hour - 70.2 MBPlaying for Team Human today and closing out this season of the show; author and New York Times and Wired contributor Clive Thompson. Clive is a keen observer of human beings and the way different media and technological environments change how we see ourselves and our purpose. His latest book, Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, looks at the ways coders are engaged in not only programing our technologies, but programming our reality. In this free-form Team Human...
Ep. 128 Brewster Kahle "The Library of Everything"
April 24, 2019 07:44 - 1 hour - 75.5 MBPlaying for Team Human today, founder of the Internet Archive, Brewster Kahle. Kahle is keeping the dream of building a decentralized, open, mind-expanding internet alive. In this Team Human conversation, Brewster and Douglas discuss the faulty dot-com business models and incentives that derailed the net. They look at the mountains of Twentieth Century culture in danger of being lost from the archive. In a historical moment when we feel exploited and distrustful of so much media, Internet Ar...
Ep. 127 "All Hands On Deck" Extinction Rebellion with Gail Bradbrook and Clare Farrell
April 10, 2019 10:48 - 1 hour - 91.7 MBGail Bradbrook and Clare Farrell leverage love and grief to build the Extinction Rebellion, a movement that demands immediate action on climate change. “There is an emotional component to waking up to our social, political, economic, and climate predicaments, and a mix of anger, shock, exhilaration, and fear. Yet properly integrated, they can all serve us as we attempt to muster the collective fortitude to confront these interconnected challenges. Playing for Team Human today are two guest...
Ep. 126 Ananya Roy "Occupying the Master’s House"
April 03, 2019 11:50 - 1 hour - 81.9 MBPlaying for Team Human today, professor, scholar, and activist Ananya Roy. Ananya will be showing us how the fight for global social justice, often begins at home. Roy has been working with Occupy Wall Street’s Micah White (Team Human Ep. 04) on a course about housing inequality for the Activist Graduate School, and is a professor of Urban Planning and Social Welfare at UCLA, where she is also director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy. Her book Poverty Capital: Microfinance and...
Ep. 125 Aaron Gell "We're in the same story, here."
March 27, 2019 06:51 - 59 minutes - 67.7 MBPlaying for Team Human today; Aaron Gell. Aaron is an editor at large for Medium and an instructor for NYU's Prison Education Project. Aaron will show us how listening and sharing stories can be the key to cultivating empathy. His long-form journalism finds the humanity in even the most compromised and contemptible of characters. In this episode, Douglas and Aaron invite you to eavesdrop into their conversation as they explore the ways stories can connect us. In this moment, when we face ex...
Ep. 124 "Don't Know Much About History" - Live from the Greene Space with Roger McNamee
March 20, 2019 06:20 - 1 hour - 93.2 MBPlaying for Team Human today: musician, investor, reformer, and the author of Zucked: Waking up to the Facebook Catastrophe, Roger McNamee. Roger will be talking about his mentorship of Mark Zuckerberg and what went wrong. Was it naive idealism? The imperatives of growth-driven capitalism? Greed? Rushkoff and McNamee look at how things have derailed and what must be done to reclaim the driver’s seat for technologies run amok. “There are no rules today.” McNamee warns of online surveillance...
Ep. 123 Live from Portland with Blaed Spence and Jennifer Rauch "Beyond the Screen"
March 13, 2019 14:17 - 1 hour - 100 MBPlaying for Team Human Today is lifelong activist, warrior, and witch Blaed Spence AND writer, professor, and author of Slow Media, Jennifer Rauch. Today’s show continues our ‘live from the road’ series as Douglas brings Team Human to the Bunk Bar in Portland, Oregon for an event in collaboration with XRAY radio. Douglas opens with a monologue arguing that politics are still stuck in the television age. What might politics look like when we are not reduced to mere spectators but instead be...
Ep. 122 Live at WNYC's the Greene Space with Naomi Klein - "The Big Tent"
February 27, 2019 13:38 - 1 hour - 85.5 MBPlaying for Team Human today: award-winning journalist, activist, and author of No Is Not Enough, This Changes Everything, The Shock Doctrine, No Logo, and most recently, The Battle For Paradise, Naomi Klein. Klein and Rushkoff share a conversation about moving beyond the ideology of individualism. It’s a discussion about what it means, in concrete terms, to forge solidarity with others. Klein finds hope in people’s ability to overcome divides by working together, in common labor, on a comm...
Ep. 121 Ron Kim "No More Race to the Bottom"
February 20, 2019 07:38 - 1 hour - 69 MBPlaying for Team Human today: New York State Assemblyman and candidate for New York City Public Advocate, Ron Kim. Ron will be helping us understand the power of local, grassroots activism and how to make government a thing of the people. With the election just around the corner, February 26th, Kim is spreading a message about putting community over corporations. “This is about people investing in people,” Kim explains. Hear Ron Kim’s vision for change that moves beyond “race to the bottom” ...
Ep. 120 Jacinta Gonzalez and Amy Herzog on "Amazon's Cloud Industrial Complex"
February 13, 2019 07:31 - 57 minutes - 65.9 MBPlaying for Team Human today: immigrant rights activists Jacinta Gonzalez and Amy Herzog. Jacinta and Amy will be showing us why the people living in Queens, New York may not want to welcome Amazon’s HQ2 with open arms. With Amazon poised to deliver on lucrative government contracts for surveillance and immigration enforcement technologies, Jacinta and Amy make it clear that the stakes are higher than just rising rents and gentrification. On today’s episode we’ll take a hard look at Amaz...
Ep. 119 Team Human Live: Douglas Rushkoff and Siobhan O'Connor "Just the Way You Are"
February 06, 2019 09:36 - 1 hour - 71 MBIn this special episode of Team Human, Douglas is joined by Siobhan O’Connor, vice president of editorial at Medium. Siobhan and Douglas reverse roles as she hosts the official Team Human book launch. This event was recorded live at Civic Hall on January 23, just one day after the Team Human manifesto hit the shelves. Whether you’ve been a Team Human listener from the very beginning or just started reading the book, this conversation exemplifies Rushkoff at his most open and candid. Douglas...
Ep. 118 Aaron Maté "The Russians Are Coming!"
January 30, 2019 12:16 - 1 hour - 79.5 MBPlaying for Team Human today: journalist and Nation columnist Aaron Maté. Aaron is gong to break down “Russiagate,” taking a sober look at the media frenzy of “bombshell” stories asserting a Russian conspiracy behind the 2016 election. Maté explains why he thinks this narrative ultimately aligns with the longstanding interests of U.S. establishment power. He calls it a “privilege protection racket” that thrives on distraction and misdirection, turning the public away from a real critique of...
Ep. 117 Book Launch: A Live Team Human Conversation with Douglas Rushkoff and Seth Godin
January 23, 2019 05:08 - 1 hour - 89.8 MBToday’s episode is a special live celebration of the release of Team Human the book and manifesto, which is now available everywhere! On January 8th, Douglas was joined by acclaimed author Seth Godin for a pre-release book party at Betaworks Studios in NYC. Douglas reverses roles for the show, with Seth hosting the conversation. Not the typical book reading, Douglas and Seth use this live event as an opportunity to engage with each other and audience in a spontaneous, free-form Team Human co...
Ep. 116 Live at Civic Hall Pt. 2: A Demonology of Algorithms with Mark Pesce
January 16, 2019 12:31 - 1 hour - 81.7 MBPlaying for Team Human today; technologist, futurist, inventor and mage Mark Pesce. In this conversation with Douglas, part two of a live Team Human show at Civic Hall, Pesce offers a thought-provoking frame through which we might better understand our relationship to algorithms and artificial intelligence: What might you call a creature that feeds on your energy, knows your weaknesses, and can tamper with your emotional state in ways that compel you to act beyond your best interest? Centu...
Ep. 115 Live at Civic Hall Pt. 1: Penny Abeywardena
January 09, 2019 07:36 - 47 minutes - 53.9 MBPlaying for Team Human today: Penny Abeywardena. In part one of a two-part live Team Human show, Douglas is joined by New York City’s Commissioner for International Affairs, Penny Abeywardena. Penny’s work looks at the synergies between local and global issues. Guided by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, Penny is helping make New York City a significant player in global efforts to solve humanity’s most pressing issues of immigration, poverty, climate change, injustice, and inequality....
Geert Lovink on "Sad by Design" (Corrected Audio)
December 12, 2018 13:28 - 1 hour - 81.1 MBPlaying for Team Human today: media activist and scholar Geert Lovink. Geert will be helping us see how an understanding of the political economy is not enough. We have to reacquaint ourselves with the experiential layer of our humanity and even reclaim our sadness to counter the stultifying effects of platform capitalism. Today, when our sources of information are intimately intertwined with our social lives, it’s not as simple as just “going offline.” How can we overcome the anti-human age...
Ep. 114 Geert Lovink on "Sad by Design" (Corrected Audio)
December 12, 2018 13:28 - 1 hour - 81.1 MBPlaying for Team Human today: media activist and scholar Geert Lovink. Geert will be helping us see how an understanding of the political economy is not enough. We have to reacquaint ourselves with the experiential layer of our humanity and even reclaim our sadness to counter the stultifying effects of platform capitalism. Today, when our sources of information are intimately intertwined with our social lives, it’s not as simple as just “going offline.” How can we overcome the anti-human age...
Ep. 113 Jamie Cohen "The Commodity of Authenticity"
December 05, 2018 11:09 - 1 hour - 87.9 MBPlaying for Team Human today: media and technology scholar Jamie Cohen. Jamie will be helping us understand the commodity of authenticity. His work looks at the ways authenticity is quantized and codified on media platforms such as YouTube. It’s a process through which trust and connection become instrumentalized as tools for the monetization and manipulation of audience attention. Jamie warns how, coupled with powerful algorithms, the gaming of authenticity threatens serious social consequ...
Jamie Cohen "The Commodity of Authenticity"
December 05, 2018 11:09 - 1 hour - 87.9 MBPlaying for Team Human today: media and technology scholar Jamie Cohen. Jamie will be helping us understand the commodity of authenticity. His work looks at the ways authenticity is quantized and codified on media platforms such as YouTube. It’s a process through which trust and connection become instrumentalized as tools for the monetization and manipulation of audience attention. Jamie warns how, coupled with powerful algorithms, the gaming of authenticity threatens serious social consequ...
Ep. 112 Jason Stockwood "System Reboot"
November 28, 2018 12:27 - 1 hour - 82.1 MBPlaying for Team Human today: business reformer and the author of Reboot: A Blueprint for Happy Human Business in the Digital Age, Jason Stockwood. Jason will be showing us how to minimize the negative externalities of big business. It all comes down to the bizarre idea of providing goods and services that people actually need. Could such a radical business concept catch on today? Jason is striving to use business and technology to be part of the solution, rather than an extractive, negative...
Jason Stockwood "System Reboot"
November 28, 2018 12:27 - 1 hour - 82.1 MBPlaying for Team Human today: business reformer and the author of Reboot: A Blueprint for Happy Human Business in the Digital Age, Jason Stockwood. Jason will be showing us how to minimize the negative externalities of big business. It all comes down to the bizarre idea of providing goods and services that people actually need. Could such a radical business concept catch on today? Jason is striving to use business and technology to be part of the solution, rather than an extractive, negative...
Ep. 111 Chenjerai Kumanyika "Uncivilization"
November 14, 2018 12:15 - 1 hour - 83.6 MBPlaying for Team Human today: activist, professor, podcast producer, journalist, and musician Chenjerai Kumanyika. Chenjerai joins Douglas in the basement Media Squat at CUNY Queens College for a conversation about why studying history matters more than ever as we fight for a just future. Chenjerai also shares a bit of his own unique personal history; how he went from working in an emergency room to a touring as an international hip hop artist, to his most recent work as an activist/journali...
Chenjerai Kumanyika "Uncivilization"
November 14, 2018 12:15 - 1 hour - 83.6 MBPlaying for Team Human today: activist, professor, podcast producer, journalist, and musician Chenjerai Kumanyika. Chenjerai joins Douglas in the basement Media Squat at CUNY Queens College for a conversation about why studying history matters more than ever as we fight for a just future. Chenjerai also shares a bit of his own unique personal history; how he went from working in an emergency room to a touring as an international hip hop artist, to his most recent work as an activist/journali...
Enspiral: "Better Work Together"
November 07, 2018 08:40 - 1 hour - 85.2 MBPlaying for Team Human today: Susan Basterfield and Anthony Cabraal. Susan and Anthony share the open secrets of bottom-up collaboration as we celebrate the publication of Enspiral’s book, Better Work Together. It's a conversation about the power of working together, building on ideas “good enough to try,” and creating a space where it’s “safe to fail.” Looking for collaborative and participatory ways to create social change? Enspiral has collected and opened up its learnings for all to rep...
Ep. 110 Enspiral: "Better Work Together"
November 07, 2018 08:40 - 1 hour - 85.2 MBPlaying for Team Human today: Susan Basterfield and Anthony Cabraal. Susan and Anthony share the open secrets of bottom-up collaboration as we celebrate the publication of Enspiral’s book, Better Work Together. It's a conversation about the power of working together, building on ideas “good enough to try,” and creating a space where it’s “safe to fail.” Looking for collaborative and participatory ways to create social change? Enspiral has collected and opened up its learnings for all to rep...
Ep. 109 Jason Schmitt "A Pirate Bay of Knowledge?"
October 31, 2018 11:57 - 1 hour - 77.4 MBPlaying for Team Human today: Jason Schmitt. Jason looks at the big business of for-profit academic publishing in his new documentary Paywall:The Business of Scholarship. Should the the world's research be locked behind closed doors? Jason makes the case for open access on today's Team Human. Opening the show, Rushkoff offers a monologue on the state of democracy. While our politicians and their propagandists have lost faith in our ability to vote purposefully, Team Human knows better. Ther...
Jason Schmitt "A Pirate Bay of Knowledge?"
October 31, 2018 11:57 - 1 hour - 77.4 MBPlaying for Team Human today: Jason Schmitt. Jason looks at the big business of for-profit academic publishing in his new documentary Paywall:The Business of Scholarship. Should the the world's research be locked behind closed doors? Jason makes the case for open access on today's Team Human. Opening the show, Rushkoff offers a monologue on the state of democracy. While our politicians and their propagandists have lost faith in our ability to vote purposefully, Team Human knows better. Ther...
Jessica Blank "A Walk In Their Shoes"
October 24, 2018 09:48 - 1 hour - 76.6 MBPlaying for Team Human today is playwright, actor, director, writer and teacher Jessica Blank. Jessica shares her insights into the process of building empathy through story. Through works such as her documentary plays the Exonerated and Aftermath, Jessica’s characters stare their audience directly in the eye, reach out to their heart, and open a pathway for transformation. This, Jessica explains, is the magic of being in shared space with people embodying real, human stories. Learn about h...
Ep. 108 Jessica Blank "A Walk In Their Shoes"
October 24, 2018 09:48 - 1 hour - 76.6 MBPlaying for Team Human today is playwright, actor, director, writer and teacher Jessica Blank. Jessica shares her insights into the process of building empathy through story. Through works such as her documentary plays the Exonerated and Aftermath, Jessica’s characters stare their audience directly in the eye, reach out to their heart, and open a pathway for transformation. This, Jessica explains, is the magic of being in shared space with people embodying real, human stories. Learn about h...
Ep. 107 Fred Turner "Beyond the Master Plan"
October 17, 2018 11:03 - 1 hour - 88.8 MBPlaying for Team Human today is Fred Turner, professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Stanford University. Fred will be helping us recover the countercultural roots of digital media, while also imploring us to look toward the mundane, existing ways of staking our claim to authority over the world in which we live. Turner has done extensive research into the countercultural and even psychedelic roots of cyberculture, culminating in his extended biography of Stewart Brand tit...
Fred Turner "Beyond the Master Plan"
October 17, 2018 11:03 - 1 hour - 88.8 MBPlaying for Team Human today is Fred Turner, professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Stanford University. Fred will be helping us recover the countercultural roots of digital media, while also imploring us to look toward the mundane, existing ways of staking our claim to authority over the world in which we live. Turner has done extensive research into the countercultural and even psychedelic roots of cyberculture, culminating in his extended biography of Stewart Brand tit...
Ep. 106 Nora Bateson "Warm Data"
October 10, 2018 10:43 - 1 hour - 79.5 MBPlaying for Team Human today is systems thinker, writer, and filmmaker Nora Bateson. Nora will be telling us how to stop looking at things as objects and begin seeing the spaces and connections between them. It’s not too late to bring our species back from the brink! This conversation was recorded backstage in Palo Alto at the Institute For the Future's (IFTF) 50th Anniversary Gala. I first met at Nora Bateson at a general semantics conference where she was screening her then brand new film...
Nora Bateson "Warm Data"
October 10, 2018 10:43 - 1 hour - 79.5 MBPlaying for Team Human today is systems thinker, writer, and filmmaker Nora Bateson. Nora will be telling us how to stop looking at things as objects and begin seeing the spaces and connections between them. It’s not too late to bring our species back from the brink! This conversation was recorded backstage in Palo Alto at the Institute For the Future's (IFTF) 50th Anniversary Gala. I first met at Nora Bateson at a general semantics conference where she was screening her then brand new film...
Philip McKenzie and Michael Wood-Lewis "There Goes the Neighborhood"
October 03, 2018 10:49 - 1 hour - 119 MBPlaying for Team Human today a double header of people trying to effect real cultural change in very different ways. Up first is cultural anthropologist, host of the 2 Dope Boys podcast, and consultant Philip McKenzie. Philip makes the case for injecting corporate america with the values of social justice by subverting the machine from within. Following Philip is founder of Front Porch Forum, Michael Wood Lewis. Michael shows us how the net can be used to turn residents back into neighbors. ...
Ep. 105 Philip McKenzie and Michael Wood-Lewis "There Goes the Neighborhood"
October 03, 2018 10:49 - 1 hour - 119 MBPlaying for Team Human today a double header of people trying to effect real cultural change in very different ways. Up first is cultural anthropologist, host of the 2 Dope Boys podcast, and consultant Philip McKenzie. Philip makes the case for injecting corporate america with the values of social justice by subverting the machine from within. Following Philip is founder of Front Porch Forum, Michael Wood Lewis. Michael shows us how the net can be used to turn residents back into neighbors. ...
Nathan Schneider "A Place Where It's Easier To Be Good"
September 26, 2018 07:43 - 1 hour - 82.9 MBPlaying for Team Human today is platform cooperative activist, journalist, and author of Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition that Is Shaping the Next Economy, Nathan Schneider. With contemporary examples and historical context, Nathan makes the case that the co-op movement is not mere utopian idealism, but a very real and vital economic shift that is being harnessed for social good. It’s a conversation that embraces the co-op transformation as a path to a more just and equitable ...
Ep. 104 Nathan Schneider "A Place Where It's Easier To Be Good"
September 26, 2018 07:43 - 1 hour - 82.9 MBPlaying for Team Human today is platform cooperative activist, journalist, and author of Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition that Is Shaping the Next Economy, Nathan Schneider. With contemporary examples and historical context, Nathan makes the case that the co-op movement is not mere utopian idealism, but a very real and vital economic shift that is being harnessed for social good. It’s a conversation that embraces the co-op transformation as a path to a more just and equitable ...
Sarah Esther Lageson PhD "Giving Each Other Some Slack"
September 19, 2018 07:46 - 58 minutes - 67.3 MBWhat happens when our past becomes indelibly fixed in the online databases that shape our digital identities? Is there ever escape from the internet’s permanent memory for our blemishes and increasingly public misfortunes? Sarah Lageson studies the serious social ramifications and new forms of “digital punishment” meted out by the growth of online crime data. On today’s episode she discusses this topic, the focus of her forthcoming book, Digital Punishment - Uses and Abuses of Criminal Recor...
Sarah Esther Lageson PhD "Giving Each Other Some Slack"
September 19, 2018 07:46 - 58 minutes - 67.3 MBWhat happens when our past becomes indelibly fixed in the online databases that shape our digital identities? Is there ever escape from the internet’s permanent memory for our blemishes and increasingly public misfortunes? Sarah Lageson studies the serious social ramifications and new forms of “digital punishment” meted out by the growth of online crime data. On today’s episode she discusses this topic, the focus of her forthcoming book, Digital Punishment - Uses and Abuses of Criminal Recor...
Ep. 103 Sarah Esther Lageson PhD "Giving Each Other Some Slack"
September 19, 2018 07:46 - 58 minutes - 67.3 MBWhat happens when our past becomes indelibly fixed in the online databases that shape our digital identities? Is there ever escape from the internet’s permanent memory for our blemishes and increasingly public misfortunes? Sarah Lageson studies the serious social ramifications and new forms of “digital punishment” meted out by the growth of online crime data. On today’s episode she discusses this topic, the focus of her forthcoming book, Digital Punishment - Uses and Abuses of Criminal Recor...
danah boyd "Seeing New Worlds"
September 12, 2018 10:20 - 1 hour - 102 MBPlaying for Team Human today, technology and social media scholar, founder of Data & Society Research Institute, and author of It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, danah boyd. On today's episode, Douglas and danah talk about stepping outside of our narrow worldviews. How does technology amplify our biases? Where does human agency lie in complex, networked systems? What is the distinction between a "network" versus a "community?" These and many more questions explored in th...
Ep. 102 danah boyd "Seeing New Worlds"
September 12, 2018 10:20 - 1 hour - 102 MBPlaying for Team Human today, technology and social media scholar, founder of Data & Society Research Institute, and author of It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, danah boyd. On today's episode, Douglas and danah talk about stepping outside of our narrow worldviews. How does technology amplify our biases? Where does human agency lie in complex, networked systems? What is the distinction between a "network" versus a "community?" These and many more questions explored in th...